The fact that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn could stay out of prison after having admitted to lying to FBI agents shows how valuable a witness he may be in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, legal experts said.

The D.C. Circuit on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a suit accusing Israel of ordering an illegal raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla while it was bringing aid and medical supplies to Gaza Strip residents, finding the district court doesn’t have jurisdiction over a foreign state.

The trio of Washington, D.C., veterans who guided former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to a plea deal include an outspoken political lawyer who created ad campaigns for the Russian government after the breakup of the Soviet Union, a former corruption prosecutor and an attorney with a White House resume.

A former National Security Agency hacking software developer pled guilty before a Maryland federal judge Friday to charges that he wrongfully took classified national security information and retained it at his Maryland home, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

U.S. sanctions on Russia began as an Obama administration effort to punish Moscow for its aggression in the Crimean peninsula nearly four years ago, but they have now emerged as patient zero in a bombshell political scandal that escalated Friday morning with the guilty plea of President Donald Trump's former adviser Michael Flynn.

The Third Circuit on Friday said it will not revisit a panel’s finding saying that Transportation Security Administration airport screeners cannot be sued for allegedly retaliating against travelers who exercise free speech, delivering a blow to an architect who said he was falsely accused of making a bomb threat.

An Army veteran has been indicted for allegedly using his status as a service-disabled veteran to falsely help a company win a $40 million U.S. Department of Defense deal to construct health care facilities on several Air Force bases, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

The U.S. Defense Department has made sparse use of a procurement structure that prioritizes low cost above all other factors when awarding high-dollar contracts for information technology services, the Government Accountability Office said Thursday.

The House Intelligence Committee on Friday approved a bill that would renew foreign surveillance authorities while adding new privacy and oversight provisions, despite the objections of Democrats, who cited concerns with its changes to “unmasking” authority.

A transcript released Friday of Reza Zarrab's guilty plea hearing on charges of scheming to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran shows the Turkish-Iranian businessman, who is testifying against a Turkish banker at a Manhattan criminal trial, discussed the decision extensively with his defense team — and that he is unlikely to be deported after he serves any sentence.

Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, pled guilty Friday to lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russia's ambassador in December 2016, talks where prosecutors say the retired Army general served as a go-between for “senior” and “very senior” Trump transition officials.

Republican lawmakers took aim at the ability of federal district courts to halt government policy through the issuance of nationwide injunctions, saying on Thursday the practice, which was crucial in halting Obama-era policy initiatives, encourages forum shopping and vests excessive power in the hands of individual judges.

The Government Accountability Office in a decision released Thursday suspended frequent protester Latvian Connection LLC for the second time from filing new protests, just months after its previous suspension ended, saying the company has continued to “routinely and repeatedly” file legally unsound protests that eat up GAO resources.

Victims of the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, on Thursday accused Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Google Inc. of allowing ISIS to “crowdsource terrorism” on their websites, thereby aiding and abetting terrorism by giving the group platforms to recruit new members and profit.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday defended the FBI’s “extensive search” for documents related to potential Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks sought by a Florida news organization, urging the Eleventh Circuit not to revive the lawsuit and to upend a mandate requiring identification of agents and sources.

Reza Zarrab testified Thursday that he never bribed Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla, telling a Manhattan federal jury that Atilla, who is accused of scheming to help Iran avoid U.S. sanctions, never asked for a dime even as Zarrab made lavish payments to the defendant's boss and to a Turkish minister.

A New Mexico federal grand jury has indicted four men, including a former U.S. Department of Defense program office director, over an alleged scheme to bilk the government out of millions of dollars through inappropriate use of a small business contracting program, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

The Trump administration has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pause orders by lower courts that put the brakes on the third iteration of the president’s proposed travel ban for nationals of several predominantly Muslim countries into the U.S., arguing that the latest version overcomes various legal hurdles raised by its challengers.

Drone advocates urged Congress on Wednesday to lean on the Federal Aviation Administration to loosen restrictions on the use of commercial drones in U.S airspace or risk U.S. industry falling behind foreign rivals, finding a receptive audience from lawmakers who simultaneously decried “idiot” hobbyists for acting unsafely.

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Federal courts across the country are handing down important rulings interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision on False Claims Act liability in Universal Health Services v. Escobar. As the rulings keep pouring in, stay up to speed on Law360’s latest coverage and analysis of Escobar’s impact.

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U.S. v. Reza Zarrab, set to start trial this month in the Southern District of New York, is likely to affect the manner in which entities and individuals decide to comply with the Office of Foreign Assets Control's secondary sanctions and represents a critical interpretive question regarding the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, say attorneys with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

Law firms are businesses where partners operate with significant autonomy. To see their priorities translate into individual partner action, firm leaders should use a few collaborative strategies, suggests Hugh A. Simons, former senior partner of The Boston Consulting Group and former COO of Ropes & Gray LLP.

The White House recently announced it will cull regulatory restrictions on the use of unmanned aircraft systems, and will allow state and local governments to submit proposals for drone testing. Companies interested in drones should understand how federal rules impact licensing of pilots, registration of drones and more, say Patrick Reilly and Blake Angelino of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP.

Attorneys should follow seven key points to ensure that their discovery requests and pleadings are appropriately prepared to overcome common hurdles that may be encountered when requesting production of a personnel file, say Michael Errera and Paul Ferland of Foran Glennon Palandech Ponzi & Rudloff PC.

While Alexander Hamilton is the subject of a hit Broadway musical and renewed biographical examinations, professor Kate Brown takes us down a road less traveled in her book "Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American Law" — showing Hamilton as first, last and foremost an American lawyer, says U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas.

The publicly available evidence strongly suggests that certain Trump campaign officials had knowledge that Russian hackers had penetrated the Democratic National Committee computer system before this became publicly known, and sought political benefit from this. If that is true, there is probable cause to charge Trump officials, and maybe the president himself, with felony violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, says former... (continued)

All signs point to the U.S. Department of Justice enforcing the Foreign Agents Registration Act more aggressively. In addition, multiple pending legislative proposals would strengthen FARA and expand the DOJ’s enforcement powers, says Brian Fleming, a member of Miller & Chevalier Chtd. and former counsel to the assistant attorney general for national security at the DOJ.

Three October bid protest decisions from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the Government Accountability Office — in Sonoran, IPKeys and CliniComp — may affect how government contractors approach the proposal and protest process, say attorneys with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

The new amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations mark a significant change in U.S. policy toward Cuba.
Companies will have to reassess the potential benefits of doing business in Cuba against the potentially high costs of complying with the sanctions, say Emerson Siegle and Brendan Hanifin of Ropes & Gray LLP.